Parsing XML strings

[almurph]

Hi,

I have XML data in a string format and want to extract the content
and parse it. Can anyone suggest any methods/techniques/ways to do this
please?

Any comments/suggestions/code-snippets much appreciated.

Al
The XML newbie

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<al*****@altavista.com> schrieb:

I have XML data in a string format and want to extract the content
and parse it. Can anyone suggest any methods/techniques/ways to do this
please?

You could load the string into an 'XmlDocument' object and use its methods
to locate the content.

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[zacks]

As Herfried suggests, the DOM can be used and I would guess recommended
for a very simple XML file. But I have recently been impressed with the
power of .NET XMLSerialization. Even for a simple XML file, it doesn't
take very long to set up the class(s) and properties, and to read it in
or write it out only takes two method calls.

[cj]

Just did that. Here's what I did to retrieve the account_number and
reply_code fields from the xml string. Hope it helps.
Dim doc As New XmlDocument
doc.LoadXml(xmlString)

Dim actNbr As XmlNodeList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("account_number")
Dim replyCode As XmlNodeList = doc.GetElementsByTagName("reply_code")

MessageBox.Show("Account: " & actNbr(0).InnerText)
MessageBox.Show("Reply code: " & replyCode(0).InnerText)


al*****@altavista.com wrote:

Hi,

I have XML data in a string format and want to extract the content
and parse it. Can anyone suggest any methods/techniques/ways to do this
please?

Any comments/suggestions/code-snippets much appreciated.

Al
The XML newbie